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Ok I have a PIII500 and have had it overclocked at 575 for a while running on Win2k, at the default voltage 2.00v. Well just recently it started locking up on me and sometimes gave me a blue screen. I took everything out except the vid card, formatted, did a clean install, put the CPU back to 500Mhz and still the same thing. I started messing around with the BIOS and turned the CPU voltage up tp 2.05v it got a little more stable, but still locked up. I increaded it to 2.10v, got better, now I have it at 2.20v and I'm posting from it now. Why would it do this and will it hurt to leave it this way?

Specs:
Abit BE6
256 MB RAM
IBM Deskstar ATA66 7200rpm 13 GB HD
SoundBlaster LIVE
Kenwood TrueX 72X CD-ROM
Creative Geforce2 GTS
Linksys LNE 10/100 NIC

What kind of heatsink are you using? Did you apply thermal compound correctly?
Leave the case open point a house fan into it and if you can run at the lower voltage without a problem with the fan blowing then you have a heat problem.

try <eek> reinstalling windows?

I have always had the case off and am using the default heatsink. I shouldn't be having a heat problem, because I'm no longer overclocking it.

What is wierd is it will run fine in Windows98se and not in Windows2000....???? It locks up during the install of win2k, but everything works fine under win98se.

That is really weird , believe it or not but i had the reverse happen to me , for some reason my 600e@852 wouldnt boot into win98 (when i was dual booting, i had to take it back donw to default speed) to save it's life but in win2k it's a breeze.